September 2007 : Gestational Diabetes

My OB visit this month is schedule to test for the gestational diabetes, which is a type of diabetes that starts during pregnancy and will be gone after delivery the baby. The big thing about this test is, if I have the diabetes (means my body isn't able to use the sugar in blood as well as it should, so the level of sugar in my blood becomes higher than normal), it can be unhealthy for me and my baby. The baby may be more likely to have a low blood sugar level or jaundice, or may weigh much more than normal-which make me become very over weight and may have a difficult delivery or need a c-section.

I was never heard of this GD before, and the nurse seriously told me that if I fell this test-she called it 1 hour test, I will have to come back for 3 hours test. And if I happen to have that GD, I have to see a specialist to control my food intake.

I kind of a bit scare, because my eating habit was change dramatically. In the past 3 years, I'm not really in to fast food at all-I ate 2-3 times at most. But this Past month, I crazilly fall in love with it, just to see the ads on TV- I feel like I have to have it. So, PP is very concern that I might fell the test, he try not to let me eat fast food the week before the test. but still- I can't help myself eat an ice-cream the night before the test 555.

Anyway, no one call me after the test which is a gesture that I'm fine-no GD :)

Lucky me, It is one pace further for my baby to a healthy world.

September 2007 : Books I read

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings."

Since I acknowledge about my pregnancy, I try to behave myself 555. I mean, changing my routine, my diet and my habit in order to accommodate my baby and also enjoy my 40 weeks journey.

Reading is one of my favorite, actually it becomes part of my routine. I read several hour a day, everyday 555. Here has a very very good and large selection of books, newsletters, journals, magazines, only for the pregnancy alone is too many.

Just to name a few that I would recommend expectant mom;

- What to expect, when you're expecting / Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg & Sandee Hathsway B.S.N.
- Body, soul and baby : a doctor's guide to the complete pregnancy experience, from preconception to postpartum / Tracy W. Gaudet M.D.
- Dadditude : how a real man became a real dad / Philip Lerman.
- The making of a mother : overcoming the nine key challenges from crib to empty nest / Valerie Davis Raskin.
- Mayo Clinic guide to a healthy pregnancy / Harms, Roger W.
- From conception to birth : a life unfolds 1st ed. / Tsiaras, Alexander.
- Prenatal parenting : the complete psychological and spiritual guide to loving your unborn child / Wirth, Frederick.
- And a baby make three
- Expecting dad
- Secret of the baby whisperer

And for some reason, I was recommended by almost every mom I talked to that I SHOULD read to my baby. And the only book I can find for this purpose is "Oh baby! the place you'll go in the utero", by Dr. Seuss. Quite good book actually, full of imagination ( which I doubt that my baby would get it). Anyway, as a first time mom, I seem to be obsess about the rave reviews of any kind of baby products. Good excuse!

PP tease me to get BA in childcare 555, may be WHO KNOWS?